Myths in Stone
Subtitle: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C.
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780520214811
Subjects: American history; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Religion: general; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science; History - U.S.; Religion; District of Columbia (Washington, DC); Washington (D.C.); Sociology Of Religion; U.S. Architecture - General; Religion / General; Sacred space
First sentence: AT A TIME when there were only a few million Europeans in the entire fifteen United States, Pierre Charles L'Enfant conceived grandiose plan for a national capital to rival the capitals of the great European nations.